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Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The South Bend Tribune Article What Do Recent Botched Executions Mean For Death Penalty? On August 31., Richard Garnett
Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The South Bend Tribune Article What Do Recent Botched Executions Mean For Death Penalty? On August 31., Richard Garnett
Richard W Garnett
Rick Garnett was quoted in the South Bend Tribune article What do recent botched executions mean for death penalty? on August 31.
“As a result of this focus, some minds may change,” said Richard Garnett, a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame and an expert on capital punishment. “I think it’s still too soon to say if this will be the catalyst for a new abolition movement.”
Quoted In The Christian Science Monitor Article And Video, "Botched Oklahoma Execution Shakes Even Death Penalty Supporters", Richard Garnett
Quoted In The Christian Science Monitor Article And Video, "Botched Oklahoma Execution Shakes Even Death Penalty Supporters", Richard Garnett
Richard W Garnett
“I don’t expect that this one incident will be in itself the straw that breaks the camel’s back and leads to the abolition of the death penalty, but clearly it was deeply troubling, and clearly a lot of people are going to be troubled by it,” says Rick Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
“Most Americans who support the death penalty still believe that it needs to be administered in a way that’s humane, and that’s possible, but difficult, to do,” he adds. “The conversation about what we the people are going to do will be …
Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The Cnn Article Oklahoma’S Botched Lethal Injection Marks New Front In Battle Over Executions On May 1., Richard Garnett
Rick Garnett Was Quoted In The Cnn Article Oklahoma’S Botched Lethal Injection Marks New Front In Battle Over Executions On May 1., Richard Garnett
Richard W Garnett
Rick Garnett was quoted in the CNN article Oklahoma’s botched lethal injection marks new front in battle over executions on May 1. The botched Oklahoma execution "will not only cause officials in that state to review carefully their execution procedures and methods, it will also almost prompt many Americans across the country to rethink the wisdom, and the morality, of capital punishment," said Richard W. Garnett, a former Supreme Court law clerk who now teaches criminal and constitutional law at the University of Notre Dame. "The Constitution allows capital punishment in some cases, and so the decision whether to use …